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Location: Georgia | My kids are just about conpletely on their new diet will let yall know results.. May be hard to tell in winter but we shall see ???? |
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Location: East Texas | For those feeding the alfalfa pellets, do you soak them? I have an older gelding that I soak his alfalfa cubes, but I have 2 other guys that I want to give the pellets to. |
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Location: MN | horsesinharleton - 2015-12-21 4:43 PM
For those feeding the alfalfa pellets, do you soak them? I have an older gelding that I soak his alfalfa cubes, but I have 2 other guys that I want to give the pellets to.
I have never soaked alfalfa pellets. But where I buy from are local, family owned and about the same size as the feed that I feed. I have heard that some brands are bigger pelleted and they have to soak, I guess. |
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Location: NE Texas | Please soak your alfalfa pellets. You may never have a choke, I had used them for years with no incident. However when you do have a horse choke, it's something you'll never forget. My slowest eating horse somehow choked on one, and I couldn't get a vet out for 3 hours. It was traumatic for the both of us!
I feed whole oats (about a pound and a half once a day), just enough to mix my Cur-OST in, with alfalfa hay. I do add in some black oil sunflower seeds or flax seed. |
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| My horses get:
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5 pounds Hay-Rite alfalfa cubes
4-5 pounds timothy grass hay
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10 pounds Hay-Rite alfalfa cubes
1 scoop Platinum Performance
1 scoop Cetyl M
They have never looked or felt better, and my bank account is a lot happier!! |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | 
I do, whole oats (one scoop twice a day) t&a pellets 1/4scoop 1/4 scoop beet pulp (try to get no molasses) vitamins I either use the grostrong mineral or DAC racehorse formula, along with coco soya oil or DAC oil. Flax seed and salt as well. |
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Location: MD | I'm trying to switch over to only alfalfa cubes and my horse will not eat them unless you put a hand full of sweet feed on top. Should I soak them? I've used pellets before but I felt like they were too hard they didn't eat them very well they pick around. |
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| I would soak them unless they are Omni cubes. |
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